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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bari-weiss-cbs-news_n_68ded656e4b0dbcd325e8157?yw4

Bari Weiss, the former New York Times opinion columnist who’s since built a career crusading against “cancel culture” and the left’s supposed excesses, will be CBS News’ new editor-in-chief, its parent company, Paramount, announced Monday.

Paramount, which was just acquired by Skydance in a Trump administration-approved merger, will also acquire Weiss’ Free Press, the publication she initially launched on Substack after leaving the Times in a huff in 2020, accusing the young “wokes” on staff of “bullying” her and silencing more conservative voices.

Weiss’ ascension to CBS News’ top job is in line with those concessions. She’s railed against DEI, claimed the Me Too movement has gone too far, published content undercutting reports of famine in Gaza and conducted a friendly interview with Peter Thiel on her podcast.

Criticism appears to fuel Weiss’ rage. In 2018, when she was called out for implying that California-born Olympic figure skater Mirai Nagasu was an immigrant, she refused to apologize and complained on Twitter, now X: “For this tweet I am being told I am a racist, a ghoul and that I deserve to die.” The pushback, she proclaimed, was a “sign of civilization’s end.”